LinuxLinks on Chess

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LinuxLinks has a new article up examining chess software:
Linux chess software generally is separated into a “front end” application and a “chess engine”. There is a wide range of chess-playing software for Linux, which can defeat most master players under tournament conditions. Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players [...]
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Hello Ubuntians ):P,
I've downloaded fruit and stockfish. I have gnome chess installed and it has only one chess engine "gnu chess" as default.
How to install the mentioned chess engine in gnome chess.

Linux has a good range of extremely strong chess engines such as Stockfish, Critter, Togo II, Crafty, GNU Chess, and Komodo. The chess engines featured in this article offer no match to a good chess engine, but they show how much can be achieved with a minuscule codebase.